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93%
of similar roles. Most pay
$194,500–$256,750
— the shaded band above.
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$301k
versus about
$226k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About PayPal
PayPal is a leading global digital wallet and online payment system, founded in 1998, that allows individuals and businesses to send, receive, and manage funds securely in over 200 markets.
PayPal currently has
84 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$160,500–$235,826
across 84 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PayPal in San Jose, you will lead the strategic vision and development of advanced machine learning models to address complex business challenges. Your responsibilities include driving ML initiatives across multiple teams, optimizing state-of-the-art algorithms, and publishing research findings. You will also develop new methodologies and frameworks for ML applications, focusing on recommendation systems, search ranking, and personalization at consumer scale. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in ML engineering with expertise in learning-to-rank, contextual bandits, and real-time recommendations serving millions of users. Strong skills in social platform ML, graph-based models, data engineering tools like BigQuery, Spark, and Airflow, as well as feature stores and model serving infrastructure are essential for this role.